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Commercial Lighting Aquarium
Aqua World Ibaraki Prefecture Oarai AquariumOarai Town, Higashiibaraki District, Ibaraki Prefecture
With a lighting scheme optimizing the features of LED lighting, the visual impact of one of the premier aquariums in Japan is further accentuated
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The "Large water tank of the Sea of Encounters", where the IWASHI LIFE show sees around 20000 sardines swimming in unison to a light show and soundtrack, to create a visually striking display. The use of color changing LEDioc FLOOD FULL-COLOR 160W floodlights together with DMX controls helps to create a colorful display.
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The largest tank at Aqua World Oarai with a volume of 1300t, the "Large water tank of the Sea of Encounters" is where visitors can see fish that are local to the area of Oarai.
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Color changing LEDioc FLOOD FULL-COLOR 160W floodlights provide the light for the IWASHI LIFE show in the "Large water tank of the Sea of Encounters".
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LEDioc FLOOD FULL-COLOR 160W floodlights accentuate the evocative movement of the fish with a delicate combination of colors to illuminate the impressive performance.
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Color changing LEDioc FLOOD FULL-COLOR 160W floodlights are installed above the "Large water tank of the Sea of Encounters".
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Color changing DMX controls panel.
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The "Glittering Coral Reef Fish" tank, where a glistening world faithful to that seen in the natural world is created under the light of high color rendering type LEDioc FLOOD NEO class 60, and LEDioc FLOOD FULL-COLOR 120W floodlights.
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High color rendering type LEDioc FLOOD NEO class 60 and LEDioc FLOOD FULL-COLOR 120W floodlights are installed above the tank which is home to the "Glittering Coral Reef Fish" tank.
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Illuminated by dimmable LEDioc FLOOD NEO class 80 floodlights, the "Ocean Sunfish" tank is the largest dedicated tank of its type in Japan, and visitors are able to enjoy watching the ocean sunfish swimming gently from close up.
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The "Sea of Sharks" - a tank that provides impact befitting an aquarium boasting the largest collection of sharks in the country. The graceful swimming motion of the sharks is shown in a fresh light under dimmable LEDioc FLOOD NEO class 80 floodlights.
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Dimmable LEDioc FLOOD NEO Vivid class 60 floodlights illuminate the "Deep Sea Sharks" tank.
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The "Sea of Learning Zone", where visitors are greeted by models of a sperm whale and basking shark. Color changing LEDioc FLOOD FULL-COLOR floodlights offer the possibility of creating a variety of visual settings, such as the blue world of the ocean.
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From the ceiling of the airy atrium of the "Connected Waterside Zone", LEDioc FLOOD Vivid class 80 floodlights with exceptional Ra95 color rendering help to reproduce a visual scene close to that of nature.
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Greeting visitors as they make their way from the entrance into the aquarium is a large school of Japanese sardines swimming around the "Life of Oarai" tank, which is illuminated by the light of LEDioc FLOOD NEO class 80 floodlights.
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High color rendering type LEDioc FLOOD NEO floodlights illuminate the "Interesting Creatures No.10" tank, where high tide and low tide conditions are recreated.
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LEDioc FLOOD NEO class 40 floodlights illuminate the "Coral Reef Sands" tank, where it is possible to see sand-dwelling garden eels.
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In the backroom areas, waterproof LEDioc MULTILINE luminaires have been installed as the core lighting provision.
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Daytime view of the entrance area.
Looking out over the Pacific Ocean from its location in Oarai Town, Ibaraki Prefecture, Aqua World Ibaraki Prefecture Oarai Aquarium is amongst the biggest of its kind in Japan. Sharks are seen as one of the symbols of the aquarium, and accordingly it boasts the largest collection of them in Japan; it also features the largest dedicated Ocean Sunfish tank in Japan, and with around 580 variants across 60 tanks of varying sizes, visitors are able to encounter around 68000 aquatic creatures.
In March 2023 works were carried out at the aquarium to update the lighting in the tanks and backroom areas to LED, with full color changing LED floodlights offering major energy savings in addition to the possibilities of creating a kaleidoscopic array of arrangements. With a volume of 1300t, the "Large water tank of the Sea of Encounters" in the "Encounter Sea Zone" is the largest in the aquarium. Using this tank as its platform, the IWASHI LIFE show sees around 20000 sardines swimming in sync to create a high impact performance, and its visual impact has been raised yet further with the upgrade of the lighting above the tank to full color changing LEDioc FLOOD FULL-COLOR floodlights, and addition of DMX controls; displaying a delicate array of colors in the tank through a multicolored range of patterns to work in sync with an accompanying musical score, visitors are treated to an elaborate performance. In July 2023, "Glittering Coral Reef Fish" tank of the "Eternal Sea Zone" was upgraded to the one that is home to 3000 colorful fish of across 40 varieties in July 2023. In this tank, high color rendering versions of LEDioc FLOOD NEO floodlights and LEDioc FLOOD FULL-COLOR floodlights combine to display the group swimming of these colorful fish in a way that closely replicates their natural environment.
In the open and airy atrium of the "Connected Waterside Zone" which replicates the nature of Ibaraki's rivers, ceiling mounted Ra95 color rendering LEDioc FLOOD NEO Vivid class 80 floodlights help to produce views that remain faithful to nature. Through carefully considered light planning appropriate to each area, the near total LED revamp of the lighting for the tanks and backroom areas has delivered significant energy savings in addition to showing the appeal of the aquarium in its best light.
Specification
LEDioc FLOOD FULL-COLOR
160W - 28
120W - 2
80W - 14
40W - 14
LEDioc FLOOD NEO
class 80 - 44
class 40 - 23
class 20 - 6
Bespoke LEDioc FLOOD NEO class 60 (High color rendering type) - 23
LEDioc FLOOD NEO Vivid
class 80 - 15
class 60 - 3
class 40 - 6
LEDioc MULTILINE - 348
FULL-COLOR DMX Control Panel - 2
Manual Dimmer (PWM control type) - 9
